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    Hey, everyone.  I appreciate that you are checking in.

    Great poetry reading on 5/27/2026 at Evie Ivy’s series at the Green Pavilion.  My co-feature was an author with many books out there -- Ron Kolm.  I appreciate him as a human, a friend, and as a writer.

     

    Mindy and Ron Kolm   Mindy and Evie Ivy

    My experience at the Green Pavilion is always one I’m glad to have had.  If I lived closer, I’d be there a lot more often.


    My forthcoming chapbook from Klytemnestra Press, No One Called Him Topless, will be celebrated on the evening of July 20th, 7pm at One and One,  I’ll send out announcements, but pencil it in on your calendars.


    Now get out your FLAIR pens to mark your calendars – JUNE 19, 2026, 8pm, the Almost Summer Comedy Show  at The Artist, 249 City Island Avenue, City Island, Bronx, New York.  Only $15, no minimum, though light fare and delicious desserts will be tempting and available for purchase (but NOT required).  You may even BYOB.  Glasses, corkscrew, ice, etc. will be offered.  A lovely family-run place.


    The wonderful line-up for Juneteenth:

    Rob Sajous, Leighann Lord, and Shelly Colman


          I book and host the show.  I have good taste.  Laughter guaranteed!!!


    Hope so much to see you and hear your laughter.

     

     

    Much love to CGG-M  ❤💗❤

    Mindy Matijasevic

    June 2026

     

     

     

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  2. Happy Juneteenth by Rhonda Hansome

    Thursday, June 20, 2013

    Dr. Joy DeGruy (Formerly Leary) spent a dozen years of research developing her theory of Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome.  P.T.S.S. is a condition arising from the multi-generational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery.  This systemic subjugation was based on the belief of the inherent / genetic inferiority of the enslaved. 


    Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, this ingrained, economically beneficial belief enabled and sanctioned institutionalized racism and its accompanying injury.

    We Americans don’t talk very much about the present day effects of our history of enslavement.  Even the release of a movie like Django Unchained, does not spark a national examination of conscience regarding the pernicious dehumanization of a people; let alone a discussion on the residual effects manifest today.


    According to Juneteenth.com, Juneteenth is the oldest celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.  On June 19th 1865 union solders, led by Major General Gordon Granger, arrived in Galveston, Texas with the news the war had ended and the enslaved were free.  So two years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation the declaration was made real in Texas and June 19th became a regular day of celebration for many black Americans.

    My feeling is that Juneteenth should be a national day of observance.  A day to look at this nightmare episode of our collective history - how far we have come from slavery and how far we still have to go towards healing. 


    Happy Juneteenth America!


    Rhonda Hansome is an actress, writer, director and stand-up comedian.  Watch her as the Bar Owner in  the promo for Date Me Do Me Dump Me  the musical on tour this summer.

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